Struck me how much time had gone into the sculpting process when I was looking at one of the shipwrecks - the one with the crucifix mast.

That was lovingly rendered, and I hadn't even been through the caves yet.

Pretty profound. They took a gamble on making it, I took a gamble on buying it and I would recommend it to anyone.

Edit: Did anyone else get the sense that the whole island was an imagined physical representation of the narrator's body and mind? He made a statement to that effect in my playthrough near the start ("my brow is a cliff face"), but it didn't click until he referred to his "shattered femur" on entering one of the caves with a huge..almost bone-like strut arcing across it.

Also when arriving in GameDev's screenied sinkhole [post #78] the narrator described the opthalmoscope being shone in his eye as if it were the moon from a ledge high above, or similar. Seemed to reference the architechture of the place itself. I got the idea that some of the things you come across (the car parts etc) which seem out of place are his memories, overlaid over what might be a 'happy place' of sorts from his past.

I have burnt my belongings, my books, this death certificate. Mine will
be written all across this island. Who was Jacobson, who remembers him? Donnelly
has written of him, but who was Donnelly, who remembers him? I have painted,
carved, hewn, scored into this space all that I could draw from him. There will be
another to these shores to remember me. I will rise from the ocean like an island
without bottom, come together like a stone, become an aerial, a beacon that they will
not forget you. We have always been drawn here: one day the gulls will return and
nest in our bones and our history. I will look to my left and see Esther Donnelly, flying
beside me. I will look to my right and see Paul Jacobson, flying beside me. They will
leave white lines carved into the air to reach the mainland, where help will be sent..
My ascent is predetermined and forever begun.

On my third playthrough, the ending dialogue was much shorter and was entirely different.

To me I feel that the story was about him trying to retrace the scene of where (What I assume is) Esther died, the car crash, a mental world trying to make sense of everything, he could've possibly been in the car with her - the hospital bed on the road resembling his current situation. He's trying to figure out what happened, how it happened and how he could've prevented it. The ending in which he 'transforms' into a seagull resembles him letting go, accepting that the quicker he lets go of his world, the quicker he can join Esther + the other people involved.